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Love it! I guess this is what northeastern Republicans complain about. I guess things are otherwise good for them. :-)
 
I have to agree with it. We now live in a noise plagued society. Everywhere we are assaulted by somebody else's noise. Of course to live in a society a little tolerance of others noise is required, but when it is an amplified assault it crosses the tolerance line. The problem is we no longer even try to enforce existing laws, let alone create new ones. The attitude is "It's my right and if you don't like it then too bad."

Whether it is stereos hauled outside for parties at homes with postage stamp size yards, boom boom cars, motorcycles with little or no mufflers, or whatever, we are under assault. I love loud music, but keep it inside. I insulated my house, and had double pane windows installed. I will do walk arounds at night while blasting music inside to make sure I'm not bothering anyone. While I can hear it outside, by the time I reach the sidewalk it is either gone, or very weak. Other than my neighbor on the left, there is no one else who can hear it. Yet there have been times I had to get in my car and drive around to find the house, a few streets over, that is blasting music outside that I can hear inside my house with the windows closed.

Anyway, other than calling the police there isn't much that can be done about it. As a society we are going to have to say enough is enough, but considering how difficult it is to deal with obvious issues such as climate change, and gun control, I doubt if noise pollution will ever be dealt with.
 
I don't have any issue here where I live; the music level is perfect.

What a funny bunch! ...Kids (audiophiles) with their ghetto blasters in their cars and @ home with their huge 'macho' speakers. :D
...And monstrous godzillaesque amps with 300 watts RMS per channel! ...And heat exhaustive tubes with temperatures reaching over 100 degrees! ...In the summertime.
 
I agree with the article. Most concerts and virtually all movies, especially the coming attractions, are too loud. Everything is too loud. Amplification sucks.

Make the singers belt it out. Make the instrumentalists blow and bow their instruments. We want the real thing. The singers' excuse that their useable life is shortened by having to really sing, instead of being miked is immaterial. Athletes depend on their strength or speed for their useable life, surgeons depend on their steady hand for their usable life and musicians are no different. Eventually, the body parts start to wear out. To slightly paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, "people should be used to their fullest potential and thoroughly worn out and then thrown on the scrap heap." Performers should not be used at 50% potential indefinitely. Do you want to watch a boxing match where they don't punch too hard so nobody gets hurt, watch a gymnast that never does too many twists in a jump so they don't hurt their legs, watch a downhill skier on a straight course or a snowboarder on a halfpipe that's only six feet tall, lest they jump too high through the air? Of course not, you want to see them at their fullest potential, doing what very few people are capable of.

Give me real instruments, real voices, in short, real performers, NOT amplifiers.
 
I've been to a number of concerts this year. All of my favorite ones have been where the venue was small and the amplification suited the size. Otherwise, the medium to large concerts all amped up the music way too much, bordering on unlistenable or just pass that. ugh.:facepalm:
 
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